https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-voting-confusion/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-voting-confusion/comment-page-1/#comment-51644 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:55:41 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=18837#comment-51644 The process used in Florida for restoration of rights (appearing in front of the governor and a tribunal) was declared by a federal judge in 2018 to be unconstitutional.
It is still unconstitutional as applied to a registrant because of a lack of due process. (Enactment of Amendment 4 was NOT due process.)

]]> https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sex-offender-voting-confusion/comment-page-1/#comment-51643 Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:06:03 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=18837#comment-51643 I am a convicted sex offender. My conviction was in 1984. I served 25 years in prison and nine years on probation. I have been out of prison for 14 years trouble free. Got married, bought a home pay my taxes early every year. I don’t even TRY to vote after reading the codicil to amendment 4. What I am NOT is an ex felon or an ex convict. I am an ex prisoner because once convicted, especially of a sex offense you are a convict and felon for life and there are plenty of people who will never let you forget it no matter what good you may do in life now. Committed a crime against an adult, was convicted (before the existence of the registry), served my sentence and probation without issue and still I am punished by arcane laws that do nothing to protect society and certainly not me.

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